Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 July 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána

9:00 am

Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin:

It is a number one priority and a good deal of work has happened in this space. We now have in almost every division in the country a dedicated property and exhibit management PEM, store. Because they were built in recent years we have been able to build them to a much higher specification, for example, in regard to the storage temperature and all of that. This is available in all but three divisions but all divisions have dedicated storage facilities. A dedicated store manager is assigned to them, which means there is one way in and one way out for property. A dedicated IT solution has been put in place to support the tracking of that property once it comes into the possession of An Garda Síochána. The next phase of the development will mean that at the end of next month a state-of-the-art custom built IT solution will be put in around that for all divisions. A few parallel developments are happening. There is ICT, the physical infrastructure and the policy around that, and the resourcing from the point of view of having dedicated staff dealing with property coming in and out.